Three

special election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-larges ...

s were held in in 1793 to fill vacancies caused by the resignation, prior to the start of the 3rd Congress, of three representatives-elect.

First special election

The first special election was held on April 8, 1793, after

Jonathan Sturges Jonathan Sturges (August 23, 1740 – October 4, 1819) was an American lawyer, jurist and politician from Fairfield, Connecticut. He represented Connecticut as a delegate to the Continental Congress and in the United States House of Repr ...

(P) declined to serve the term for which he'd been elected

Second special election

Benjamin Huntington Benjamin Huntington (April 19, 1736 – October 16, 1800) was an eighteenth-century American lawyer, jurist and politician from Connecticut and served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress and as a member of the U.S. House of Re ...

(P) also resigned his seat before the start of Congress and was replaced by

Jonathan Ingersoll Jonathan Ingersoll (April 16, 1747 – January 12, 1823) was a Connecticut politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Early life Ingersoll was born on April 16, 1747, in Ridgefield in what was then called the Province of ...

in a special election held on September 16, 1793.''United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997: The Official Results'', by Michael J. Dubin (McFarland and Company, 1998)

Third special election

A pair of openings lead to a two-seat special election: 1. Member-elect

declined to serve from the September special election; and 2. Member-elect Stephen M. Mitchell declined to serve from the general election when he was appointed to the U.S. Senate. A third election was held for their replacements, with the top two winning seats in the 3rd Congress:

Joshua Coit Joshua Coit (October 7, 1758 – September 5, 1798) was an eighteenth-century American lawyer and politician. He served as a United States Representative from Connecticut. Early life and career Coit was born in New London in the Connecticut C ...

(Pro-Administration) and

Zephaniah Swift Zephaniah Swift (February 27, 1759 – September 27, 1823) was an eighteenth-century American author, judge, lawyer, law professor, diplomat and politician from Windham, Connecticut. He served as a U.S. Representative from Connecticut and State ...

(Pro-Administration).

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United States House of Representatives 1793 at-large

First special election

Second special election

Third special election

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